A modified skills training component of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was implemented in a group therapy format for non-suicidal outpatient young adolescents who met criteria for oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). Thirty-two youths completed the 16-week program, as well as pre- and post-treatment measures. The treatment was effective not only in decreasing negative behaviors, but also in...

given the potential for carbon storage in plant tissues, this approach has a serious interest in recent decades. therefore, the ability of carbon storage in astragalus gossypinus and astragalus parrowianus were examined in part of alpine pastures in kermanshah province. after determining the representative districts, according to 4 main aspect and 5 category elevation was determined representat...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of age, sex, type of surgery, extent of retinal detachment (rd), vitreous incarceration in wound, and myopic degeneration on the rate of retinal redetachment following rd surgery using eternal weibull regression analysis. methods: we performed a survival analysis on a multi-center randomized controlled trial conducted on patients with pseudophakic or aphakic rd t...

with increasing competition in today’s markets, the vital point for companies is to maintain their market shares. therefore, marketers try to vitalize the companies’ brands, in order to maintain their position in market. whereas, creation a new brand is very costly and time consuming and its chance of success is limited, nowadays, more than ever, marketers are trying to achieve their goals thro...

We examined the relations between the preferred frequency gain settings obtained from the modified simplex procedure and those that were rated highest during category rating at three speech and noise levels (speech and noise levels at 60/65, 63/63, 65/60, all in dBA). During category rating, subjects rated short discourse passages on a 7-point scale using clarity and noise interference as crite...

In this article, we introduce the concept of co-covering which is the dual of covering concept. Then, we prove several theorems being similar to the theorems that have been de-veloped for the covering concept. For example, we provide the lifting criterion for co-coverings of a topological space X, which helps us to classify them by subgroups of the group of all homeomorphisms of X.